WASHINGTON,
D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today spoke on the Senate floor to
call for U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s resignation following the
secretary’s comments at the Trilateral Commission that Israel could
become an “apartheid state” if his proposed two-state solution to the
peace Israeli-Palestinian peace-process fails.

“There
is no place for this word in the context of the State of Israel. The
term ‘apartheid’ means ‘apart’—different, isolated—the state of the
victims of apartheid with which the Jews are all too familiar. The
notion that Israel would go down that path, and so face the same
condemnation that met South Africa, is unconscionable. The United
States should be aggressively asserting that Israel can never be made an
apartheid nation while America exists, because America will be with
Israel regardless of the status of any diplomatic process.

“The
fact that Secretary Kerry sees nothing wrong with making such a
statement on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day demonstrates a
shocking lack of sensitivity to the incendiary and damaging nature of
his rhetoric. It is my belief that Secretary Kerry has thus proven
himself unsuitable for his position and that before any further harm is
done to our alliance with Israel, he should offer President Obama his
resignation and the President should accept it.”

Sen.
Cruz was one of three U.S. Senators to vote against Secretary Kerry’s
nomination, citing his belief that as Secretary of State, John Kerry
would place what he considered to be the wishes of the international
community above the national security interests of the United States.

Every
member of this body has expressed our commitment for the United States
to stand resolutely with our friend and ally the Nation of Israel.
Doing so is right, and it is overwhelmingly in the national security
interests of the United States.

It
was therefore with great sadness that I read this morning about the
comments of Secretary of State John Kerry, who reportedly suggested at
the Trilateral Commission that Israel could become an “apartheid state”
if his proposed two-state solution to the peace Israeli-Palestinian
peace-process fails.

Secretary
Kerry has long experience in foreign policy, and he should understand
that words matter. “Apartheid” is inextricably associated with one of
the worst examples of state-sponsored discrimination in recent
memory—the apartheid system in South Africa that was ultimately brought
down by the heroic resistance of Nelson Mandela inside the country,
supported by a concerted campaign of diplomatic and economic sanctions
by the international community.

There
is no place for this word in the context of the State of Israel. The
term “apartheid” means “apart”—different, isolated—the state of the
victims of apartheid with which the Jews are all too familiar. The
notion that Israel would go down that path, and so face the same
condemnation that met South Africa, is unconscionable. The United
States should be aggressively asserting that Israel can never be made an
apartheid nation while America exists, because America will be with
Israel regardless of the status of any diplomatic process.

Fifteen
months ago—almost to the day—John Kerry was confirmed by the Senate by a
vote of 94-3. Despite my preference for giving the President the
cabinet members of his choice, I found I could not join the vast
majority of my colleagues and support his nomination because I was
convinced that as Secretary of State, John Kerry would place what he
considered to be the wishes of the international community above the
national security interests of the United States. I fear with these
most-recent ill-chosen remarks, Secretary Kerry has proven those
concerns well founded. Rather than focusing on our clear national
security interest—which is continuing to guarantee Israel’s security
through our unquestionable commitment to it—Secretary Kerry has
repeatedly demonstrated a willingness to countenance a world where
Israel is made a pariah because it will not sacrifice its security to
his diplomatic initiatives. It is no wonder that Israel’s Defense
Minister remarked in January that “The only thing that can save us is
for John Kerry to win a Nobel Prize and leave us in peace.”

The
fact that Secretary Kerry sees nothing wrong with making such a
statement on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day demonstrates a
shocking lack of sensitivity to the incendiary and damaging nature of
his rhetoric. Mr. President, it is my belief that Secretary Kerry has
thus proven himself unsuitable for his position and that before any
further harm is done to our alliance with Israel, he should offer
President Obama his resignation and the President should accept it.

Free Fall: GDP Plummets to 0.1 Percent

New numbers show the GDP took a nose dive in the past quarter going
from 2.5 percent to just 0.1 percent, prompting analysis that America
could be headed for a double dip recession. More from the Wall Street Journal.

The U.S. economy slowed in the first quarter to one of the weakest
paces of the five-year recovery as the frigid winter appeared to have
curtailed business investment and weakness overseas hurt exports.

Gross domestic product, the broadest measure of goods and services
produced across the economy, advanced at a seasonally adjusted annual
rate of 0.1% in the first quarter, the Commerce Department said
Wednesday. Economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal had forecast
growth at a 1.1% pace for the quarter.

High taxes, Obamacare and economic uncertainty are coming home to roost.

Republicans charged Tuesday that an email in which a White House
official advises former U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice to link the 2012
Benghazi attack to an anti-Muslim video confirms the linkage was
fabricated to help President Barack Obama's re-election.

"This email is a smoking gun," Sen. Lindsey Graham told Newsmax. "It
shows political operatives in the White House working to create a
political narrative at odds with the facts.

"Their goal was not to tell the truth about what actually happened,"
Graham said Tuesday. "They did not want to provide the best information
available.

"Instead, we were provided the most beneficial political story for President Obama."

New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte told "On the Record With Greta Van Susteren"
on Fox News Channel: "We always said, 'Where did the video reference
come from?' Now we know it came from the White House" and not the
intelligence community.

Both Graham and Ayotte are members of the Senate Armed Services
Committee. They have been among the many Republicans who have called for
an independent investigation of the attacks on Sept. 11, 2012, that
killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans, including two
former Navy SEALS.

"The emails show that in the days after the attack in Benghazi, Libya,
the White House was more focused on protecting President Obama than
informing Americans about the terrorist attack that left Ambassador
Chris Stevens and three other Americans dead."

The email, dated Sept. 14, 2012, was among more than 100 pages of documents released by Judicial Watchon
Tuesday. It shows White House Deputy National Security Adviser Ben
Rhodes advising Rice, who now is Obama's national security adviser, to
focus on the YouTube video as the cause of a spontaneous protest that
led to the attack.

But previously released emails show
senior defense officials told the administration on the night of the
attack that it was terrorism linked to al-Qaida and that no protest had
occurred.

Rhodes outlined several talking points for Rice, with the advice "to
underscore that these protests are rooted in an Internet video, and not a
broader failure of policy."

The email was prepared for a Sept. 15 "prep call" with Rice that was to
occur at 4 p.m., according to the document. The following day, five days
after the attack, Rice appeared on five Sunday talk shows, each time
linking the Libyan attacks to the anti-Muslim video.

Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton cited the same reason for the
attacks, while Obama would not say whether it was terrorism until
several days afterward.

Former CIA deputy director Mike Morell testified earlier this month that
he had no idea where the story about a video protest came from when he
saw Rice make the claim on television.

The other Americans killed in the attacks on the U.S. consulate and
adjacent CIA annex were Sean Smith and two former Navy SEALs, Glen
Doherty and Tyrone Woods.

Judicial Watch obtained the documents on April 18 via a Freedom of
Information Act lawsuit it filed against the State Department last June,
said President Tom Fitton. The group obtained 41 emails, many of which
had portions redacted.

"Now we know the Obama White House's chief concern about the Benghazi
attack was making sure that President Obama looked good," Fitton said.

"These documents undermine the Obama administration's narrative that it
thought the Benghazi attack had something to do with protests or an
Internet video," he said. "Given the explosive material in these
documents, it is no surprise that we had to go to federal court to pry
them loose from the Obama State Department."

Some of the top White House officials who received the Rhodes memo were
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney; Deputy Press Secretary Joshua
Earnest; then-White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer;
then-White House Deputy Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri;
then-National Security Council Director of Communications Erin Pelton;
Special Assistant to the Press Secretary Howli Ledbetter; and then-White
House Senior Adviser and political strategist David Plouffe.

In her interview with Van Susteren, Ayotte said the email made it clear
that the focus of the "prep call" was to ensure that Obama, who was less
than two months away from a tight re-election bid, looked like a strong
leader rather than try to get out the facts on the attacks as they were
known.

Further, since both Carney and Plouffe were among the email's
recipients, it can be assumed they read it and were aware of the story
that Rice was going to tell, Republicans said.

Also troubling, Ayotte said, was that in the email was a reference for
Rice to make sure to mention that al-Qaida had been destroyed.

"That was nowhere in the talking points, and actually it's contradicted
by what we know happened on that day," Ayotte told Van Susteren.

Meanwhile, Catherine Frazier, a spokeswoman for Sen. Ted Cruz, another
member of the Armed Services Committee, told Newsmax that the email
confirmed "how little we really know about what happened in Benghazi on
Sept 11, 2012."

"This administration must be held accountable to telling the truth so
that we can find closure, bring our attackers to justice, and prevent
future attacks," Frazier said.

Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar told Newsmax: "Today we learn, from documents
obtained by Judicial Watch, that the president's communications team
intentionally fabricated a story about Benghazi in order to deceive the
American public."

"The Obama administration made up a story out of whole cloth to deceive
the American people and to try to make the president look good," he
said.

Gosar is a member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which also has been investigating the Benghazi attack.

"Whether lying about Obamacare, and now lying about Benghazi, this administration has no decency," Gosar said.

TRUTH REVEALED: Official Emails Show White House Cover Up Of Benghazi Attack

New information has
been released on the Benghazi attack from emails obtained by Judicial
Watch show that Obama Administration officials had emailed Ambassador
Susan Rice before her Sunday talk show appearance to coach her to inform
the public that the attack occurred as a spontaneous protest because on
the controversial Internet video. Susan Rice made this argument even
though defense officials had informed administration officials the night
of the attack that it was terrorism. The emails call into question the
timeline of events the White House has stood by and Congressional
testimony by administration officials.
______________
Newly released emails on the Benghazi terror attack suggest a senior
White House aide played a central role in preparing former U.N.
ambassador Susan Rice for her controversial Sunday show appearances —
where she wrongly blamed protests over an Internet video.
More than 100 pages of documents were released to the conservative
watchdog group Judicial Watch as part of a Freedom of Information Act
lawsuit. Among them was a Sept. 14, 2012, email from Ben Rhodes, an
assistant to the president and deputy national security adviser for
strategic communications.
The Rhodes email, with the subject line: “RE: PREP Call with Susan:
Saturday at 4:00 pm ET,” was sent to a dozen members of the
administration’s inner circle, including key members of the White House
communications team such as Press Secretary Jay Carney.
In the email, Rhodes specifically draws attention to the anti-Islam
Internet video, without distinguishing whether the Benghazi attack was
different from protests elsewhere.
The email lists the following two goals, among others:
“To underscore that these protests are rooted in an Internet video, and not a broader failure of policy.”
“To reinforce the President and Administration’s strength and steadiness in dealing with difficult challenges.”
The email goes on to state that the U.S. government rejected the
message of the Internet video. “We find it disgusting and reprehensible.
But there is absolutely no justification at all for responding to this
movie with violence,” the email stated.
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said the documents read like a PR
strategy, not an effort to provide the best available intelligence to
the American people.
“The goal of the White House was to do one thing primarily, which was
to make the president look good. Blame it on the video and not [the]
president’s policies,” he said.
The Rhodes email was not part of the 100 pages of emails released by
the administration last May — after Republicans refused to move forward
with the confirmation of John Brennan as CIA director until the
so-called “talking points” emails were made public.
The email is also significant because in congressional testimony in
early April, former deputy CIA director Michael Morell told lawmakers it
was Rice, in her Sunday show appearances, who linked the video to the
Benghazi attack. Morell said the video was not part of the CIA analysis.Read More

- See more at:
http://americanmilitarynews.com/2014/04/truth-revealed-official-emails-show-white-house-cover-benghazi-attack/#sthash.sATMvcQR.dpuf

Why
Hamdani in particular? There were many First Responders, and many
police cadets who were killed in 9/11. Might this street renaming have
something to do with pandering to Muslims who have professed outrage for
so many years over recently discontinued NYPD counter-terror efforts in
Muslim communities?

“Muslim 9/11 First Responder Gets New York City Street Named After Him,” by Pamela Geller, Breitbart, April 28, 2014:

The New York Daily Newsreported Monday
that “a police cadet who died helping World Trade Center victims on
9/11 was honored Monday at a Queens street renaming — 13 years after
being accused of involvement in the attacks. Residents and elected
officials came together to formally rename 204th St. at 35th Ave.
‘Salman Hamdani Way’ after Mohammed Salman Hamdani, the son of Muslim
immigrants from Pakistan who lived a block from the Bayside street.”

Endless concessions and accommodations to Islamic demands only give
way to more. Not to rain on anyone’s proselytizing parade, but why this
guy? Why does this first responder get a street named after him? Because
he’s a Muslim? What about the other hundreds of first responders who
died that day? Why don’t they have streets named after them?

Is it because Mohammed Salman Hamdani is a unicorn? Is it really so
extraordinary that a Muslim helped people that he gets singled out? Why
is his sacrifice greater than that of all the other first responders who
were killed?

Apparently New York City thinks so. And so does the Hamas-tied Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). In their press release
about the street renaming, they managed both to crow and to play the
victim card. The Board President of CAIR’s New York chapter, Ryan
Mahoney (either a convert to Islam or a useful idiot for this Hamas
group), said: “Today, CAIR-NY commends the city council for honoring a
true American hero, Salman Hamdani, who gave his life as a first
responder on 9/11. This street naming will serve as a reminder of
courage and sacrifice to the residents and visitors of Bayside for years
to come as well as a testament that individuals and communities of all
ethnic and religious backgrounds are united in the cause of service to
humanity.”

That wasn’t so bad, but then CAIR went on to whine: “In 2012, Hamdani
was not included in the list of fallen police officers in the NYPD’s
official 9/11 memorial and in the list of 441 first responders on the
National September 11 Memorial.”

CAIR doesn’t mention the fact that, as journalist Matthew Shaffer states,
“six weeks after the September 11 attacks — before Hamdani’s remains
were identified, which Ellison implies to be the turning point of public
perception — Congress signed the PATRIOT Act into law with this line
included: ‘Many Arab Americans and Muslim Americans have acted
heroically during the attacks on the United States, including Mohammed
Salman Hamdani, a 23-year-old New Yorker of Pakistani descent, who is
believed to have gone to the World Trade Center to offer rescue
assistance and is now missing.’ That is, Hamdani was actually singled
out for particular high honors among the thousands of victims of the
September 11 attacks.”

It is odd that CAIR didn’t repeat the Daily News’s
victimhood claim that Hamdani was “accused of involvement in the
attacks” by anonymous police sources cited in early news reports. Muslim
Representative Keith Ellison made a travesty of Rep. Peter King’s
counter-terror hearings in 2011 by bursting into crocodile tears while
telling the story of how Hamdani was accused of being one of the jihad
attackers when he was missing in the days after 9/11, when actually he
had been killed helping people at the scene.

But maybe that was too much even for CAIR, since it is so far from
the truth. Says Shaffer: “There’s little evidence of the ‘rumors’ of
which Ellison speaks, either. Poke around yourself. Go to Google and
search for Mohammed Salman Hamdani’s name, using various time frames
from before today’s hearings (say, in the week after the September 11
attack). You’ll discover two discordant sets of returns: none for sites
and news reports accusing Hamdani of being a terrorist, and many
thousands of pages honoring him as a hero while claiming that he was
‘widely accused’ of being a terrorist.”

Outrageous.

How many people did Salman Hamdani save? He responded to an
emergency. That was his job. Just like the other 2993 victims who went
to work that day. They deserve streets named after them, too.

The
most disturbing aspect of this whole episode, aside from the murders of
Ambassador Stevens and the others, was the fact that the Obama White
House decided to blame the Internet video for the attack, thus making an
indirect assault on the freedom of speech and a sidelong endorsement of
Sharia blasphemy restrictions.

Previously unreleased internal Obama administration emails show that a
coordinated effort was made in the days following the Benghazi terror
attacks to portray the incident as “rooted in [an] Internet video, and
not [in] a broader failure or policy.”Emails sent
by senior White House adviser Ben Rhodes to other top administration
officials reveal an effort to insulate President Barack Obama from the
attacks that killed four Americans.

Rhodes sent this email to top White House officials such as David
Plouffe and Jay Carney just a day before National Security Adviser Susan
Rice made her infamous Sunday news show appearances to discuss the
attack.

The “goal,” according to these emails, was “to underscore that these
protests are rooted in an Internet video, and not a broader failure or
policy.”

Rice came under fierce criticism following
her appearances on television after she adhered to these talking points
and blamed the attack on a little-watched Internet video.
The newly released internal White House e-mails show that Rice’s
orders came from top Obama administration communications officials.

“[W]e’ve made our views on this video crystal clear. The United
States government had nothing to do with it,” Rhodes wrote in the email,
which was released on Tuesday by the advocacy group Judicial Watch.

“We reject its message and its contents,” he wrote. “We find it
disgusting and reprehensible. But there is absolutely no justification
at all for responding to this movie with violence. And we are working to
make sure that people around the globe hear that message.”

Rhodes also suggested that Rice tout Obama’s reputation as “steady and statesmanlike.”

“I think that people have come to trust that President Obama provides
leadership that is steady and statesmanlike,” he wrote. “There are
always going to be challenges that emerge around the world, and time and
again, he has shown that we can meet them.”

Also contained in the 41 pages of documents obtained by Judicial
Watch is a Sep. 12, 2012 email from Payton Knopf, the former deputy
spokesman at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations.

In this communication, Knopf informs Rice that senior officials had
already dubbed the Benghazi attack as “complex” and planned in advance.
Despite this information, Rice still insisted that attacks were
“spontaneous.”

The newly released cache of emails also appear to confirm that the
CIA altered its original talking points on the attacks in the following
days.

“The first draft apparently seemed unsuitable … because they seemed
to encourage the reader to infer incorrectly that the CIA had warned
about a specific attack on our embassy,” states one email. “Morell noted
that these points were not good and he had taken a heavy hand to
editing them. He noted that he would be happy to work with [then deputy
chief of staff to Hillary Clinton] Jake Sullivan and Rhodes to develop
appropriate talking points.”…

"The crime of apartheid is defined as inhumane acts committed in the
context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and
domination by one racial group over any other racial group or groups and
committed with the intention of maintaining that regime.”
- 1998 Rome Statute (the treaty that established the International Criminal Court (ICC)

Yesterday, 80-year old Donald Sterling...tried in the court of
public opinion...was banned for life from any and all NBA
league activities, fined $2.5 million for racist statements made, and
will
be forced to sell 'The Clippers' all because of comments he made
in a PRIVATE taped phone conversation with his then bought and paid for
30-year old mistress.
This punishment came after threats by ubber race-baiter Al Sharpton
to protest at the NBA headquarters. And while Sterling's
statements were disgusting and indeed racist saying them is NO crime as
he is protected by the First Amendment for NO violence against the
government or against anyone was made in his comments...brief to the
point synopsis NOTHING more
needs to be said.

Divert and deflect...so while the media stays focused on and is
promoting this story ad-nauseum, real stories about real serious
international infractions basically go unreported, and that is what Obama
hoped for as the stories going unreported give yet another black-eye to his administration.

"If there’s no two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict soon, Israel risks becoming 'an apartheid state,'” hateful wordssaid by Secretary of
State John 'Swiftboat' Kerry as he addressed world
leaders in a closed-door meeting last Friday at the Trilateral
Commission.

John Kerry...just his name becomes synonymous with the word
'traitor' NOT just for his LIES about his service in Viet Nam and for
his to this day close-friendship with 'Hanoi' Jane Fonda, but now for
his out-and-out bigoted and hateful words deliberately and maliciously said about our
ally Israel on the eve of Yom Hashoah... Holocaust Memorial Day...the day
set aside every year to remember and honor the six million Jews...six
million men, women, and children...MURDERED by Adolf Hitler and his
cronies just for being Jews.

And what's even sadder than the words themselves is that Kerry
ignores the fact that there is NO semblance of apartheid in Israel whatsoever as all
with Israeli citizenship...and the Palestinians refuse Israeli
citizenship...whether Jews, muslims or Christians, have the same equal
rights and standing under Israeli law. Can't say that in any Arab
country...in any muslim country. In fact, the PLO has announced that in
any future Palestinian state, Jews will NOT be permitted to be
residents... now that is apartheid Mr. Kerry...that is apartheid.

And
these words about apartheid were NOT the
only anti-Israel comments that Kerry made while speaking before the
commission. This in-your-face hater of Israel actually threatened that
failure of the Israeli/Palestinian peace talks could lead to a restart
of Palestinian violence against Israeli citizens. This truly vile man
looks away to the fact that violence against Israeli citizens has NEVER
stopped courtesy of all the rockets lobbed into Israel from his
ever-loving Palestinian cohorts in Gaza.

Kerry also alluded to the fact that if one or both of the governments of
either Benjamin Netanyahu or that of Mahmoud Abbas left power, there could be a change for the positive in
the prospects for peace. If “there is a change of government or a
change of heart,” Kerry said, “something will happen.” The man who works
for and is loyal to the most corrupt and traitorous government in U.S. history had the
audacity to criticize the governments of others, especially the
government of our closest ally and friend, Israel.

And
with Jewish leaders rightly seething over Kerry's words, TexasSenator
Ted Cruz did the right thing by calling for Kerry's resignation.
Saying, “Mr. President, it is my belief that Secretary Kerry has thus
proven himself unsuitable for his position and that before any further
harm is done to our alliance with Israel, he should offer President
Obama his resignation,” adding, “And the president should accept it.”
Cruz said what needed to be said...but something we know Kerry's fellow
Israel-hater Barack HUSSEIN Obama will NEVER do.

And now 'Mr. Swiftboat', in an attempt to cover his butt, has said he
chose the wrong words in describing Israel's possible future. Wrong
words my eye...Kerry knew damn well what he was saying as his previous
comments concerning Israel speak volumes about his true feelings for the
now and forever Jewish state. Releasing a statement through the State
Department, Kerry turned his ire on Republicans by saying these attacks
against him were NOTHING but "partisan political" attacks. "I will not
allow my commitment to Israel to be questioned by anyone, particularly
for partisan, political purposes..." he said in his statement but NO one
is buying this nonsense for Kerry is NOT committed to Israel but to the
muslim brethren of his boss Barack HUSSEIN Obama...for a traitor doesn't
change his spots that easily...for the first words out of someone's mouth
are more times than NOT the words they meant to say.

In his continued attempts to remove his foot from his mouth, Kerry
claimed his words were only an "expression" and "misinterpretation" of
his deep belief that a two-state solution is the only viable way to
end the on-going conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. But let's
be honest here...there is NO "misinterpretation" of words for these words are NOT unlike his past public pronouncements regarding his
military record, which he claims to this day to have also been"misinterpreted." A
liar like his boss is more like it...a man whose words are always
carefully chosen for he, like Obama, is a master of subterfuge and lies...a
master at blame everybody else for his actions when caught.

And always remember that there was NEVER any real possibility for
Kerry or
anyone else for that matter brokering a true peace deal simply because
trading land for peace just does NOT work. And the truth is that the
Palestinians NEVER really wanted peace as they are of the same islamic
mindset that wants
Israel pushed into the sea...of the same mindset that says we want it
all...and John 'Swiftboat' Kerry was Obama's appointed man to give them
just that.

So while Kerry was bloviating his LIES all these many months about
wanting a two-state solution that we all knew from the start would NEVER
be had what with Kerry on many occasions baiting and publicly
chastising Israel...publicly chastising Netanyahu...about the building of settlements on their rightfully owned land...a
final deal with Iran had time to be reached allowing them to continue
enriching uranium.

And all this was going on while the media had us focused on both the
wild goose chase search for a missing plane and the fall of a wizened
80-year old racist. It will now be interesting to see what the media
cooks up for us to focus on next, especially with yesterday's bombshell
that as part of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit more than 100 pages
of documents were released to Judicial Watch, and that among these
documents was a September 14, 2012, e-mail from Ben Rhodes (an assistant
to the president and deputy national security adviser for strategic
communications) showing that one of the Obama administration’s primary
communications goals after the September 11th attack on Benghazi was “to
underscore that these protests are rooted in an Internet video, and not
a broader failure of policy."